Dec. 31, 2017. It’s the fourth day of spontaneous demonstrations against the Iranian regime for runaway inflation, unemployment, and the waste of the nation’s oil earnings on foreign adventures. Here is an interactive map of events in Iran by locality. Hover over an icon for a news flash appropriate to that location. The Progressive US press […]
Archives for December 2017
Democrats’ arms-control agenda and wishful thinking put US in present peril of ballistic missile destruction
Why is it that the US has no anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system ready now, to thwart not only North Korean and Iranian missiles but also Russian and Chinese? The short answer is the Democratic Party and its penchant for arms-control treaties and wishful thinking. Marc Thiessen provides a capsule history of the Democrats’ betrayal. This 12-minute […]
What should be done about this past year’s wildfire crisis in the Northwest, West, and Southwest?
Are there sensible policies that could be put in place so that the past year’s wildfire crisis in the Northwest, West, and Southwest doesn’t repeat itself in the near future? We think so, and the solutions we propose for discussion have bearing on what the relationship of government assistance should be to other types of natural […]
Deregulation is Trump’s great contribution to US economy beside tax bill, but trade policy threatens both economy and security strategy
Deregulation is Trump’s great contribution to the US economy beside the just-passed tax bill. But his administration’s trade policy threatens both the economy and US security strategy. The lead editorial of the Dec. 12, 2017 Wall Street Journal notes that “Amid the debate over tweets and tax reform, perhaps the most significant change brought by […]
2017 health research: saturated fat ok; alcohol not ok; racket sports, swimming better than running
Most end-of-year reviews and lists are predictably tedious. This one isn’t. From it, we’ve selected the most interesting journal articles on health issues, our holiday gift to Founders Broadsheet‘s readers for 2018. Mens sana in corpore sano, a healthy body politic is underpinned by a physically healthy and mentally alert citizenry. Several of the articles cited below […]
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